Jaenbert
Jaenbert
(Jaenberht, Janbriht, Janibert, Jambert, Lambert, Lanbriht, Genegberht.)
Thirteenth Archbishop of Canterbury; died at Canterbury 11 or 12 August, 791: the exact date is uncertain; Florence of Worcester and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle place it in 790; Symeon of Durham, the better authority, in 791. Nothing is known of his life till 760, when he was elected Abbot of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and blessed by Archbishop Bregwin. When the archbishop died he was buried at Christ Church, and Jaenbert asserted the rights of his own abbey as the traditional burying-place with such vigour that according to a late tradition the monks of Christ Church elected him archbishop to avoid his appeal to Rome. He was consecrated on 2 February, 766, and received the pallium from Pope Paul I in 767. During his pontificate the struggle of Kent against the growing power of Offa of Mercia ended in the defeat of the former kingdom. Offa’s policy for the aggrandizement of Mercia involved the creation of a separate archbishopric independent of Canterbury, and though Jaebert opposed this vigorously, Offa obtained the pope’s consent, and the papal legates George and Theophylact held a council at Chelsea in 787 where Jaebert was forced to surrender much of the jurisdiction of Canterbury to Higbald, the newly elected Archbishop of Lichfield. The extent of the territory transferred is not recorded. Silver coins were minted by Jaebert, he being the earliest Archbishop of Canterbury of whose coinage specimens have been preserved.
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EDWIN BURTON Transcribed by Christine J. Murray
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIIICopyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Jaenbert
archbishop of Canterbury, received his education at St. Augustine’s, ‘and was consecrated at Canterbury, February 2, 766, by Egbert, archbishop of York. The great event of this episcopate is the conversion of the bishopric of Lichfield into a metropolitan see by Offa, king of Mercia, and the consequent spoliation, with the loss of dominion, authority, and dignity, of the archbishop of Canterbury. There was much to render the last years of Jaenbert’s life melancholy, for the prospects of his country were gloomy in the extreme. Thwarted and discomfited to the last, Jaenbert perceived that his orders to be buried at St. Augustine’s would not be obeyed by his chapter if he died without the walls of the monastery, and he therefore sought an asylum in the place endeared to him by the recollection of younger and happier days. He commanded his stone coffin to be prepared; his episcopal robes were arranged by his bedside; his soul was comforted by the psalms sung and the Scriptures read to him by brethren who could sympathize with him in his fallen fortunes. He died August 11, 790. See Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 1:242 sq.